Captain Steven Keleman spoke to the Committee about the role and activities of the Rutgers Office of
Emergency Management (OEM). The home page for OEM is at
http://emergency.rutgers.edu/. The OEM home page
provides an excellent overview including useful information on preparing for emergencies. The Committee
is very interested in going to the next steps. First of all we will review our existing Emergency
Procedures Manuals that we have for each library. It is always a valuable exercise to review our manuals
and procedures. We will then invite OEM to come in and review them (basically the manuals are all the
same except for building specific items) to see where there is room for improvement. We also may wish to
pursue some training that Captain Keleman proposed. Captain Keleman spoke about a trip to Trenton to
visit the ROIC aka "the Rock", (just a helicopter ride away) the State Police Regional Operations
Intelligence Center in West Trenton. This is where the federal government (FBI, DEA, and Homeland
Security) communicates with the state and local authorities. They provide University Public Safety with
the up to date intelligence. Captain Keleman's discussion was very informative and reassuring that
Rutgers is committed to the safety of its community.